Drikung Chungtsang, 1st

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ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་
The First Drikung Chungtsang, Rigdzin Chökyi Drakpa(1595 - 1659) 
The Treasury of LivesRinchen Terdzö ChenmoDamngak Rinpoché DzöBuddhist Digital Resource Center

Kunkhyen Chökyi Drakpa, aka Drikung Rigdzin Chökyi Drakpa (1595–1659)—the youngest son of the 21st throne holder of the Drikung Kagyü lineage, Chögyal Rinchen Phuntsok (1547-1602). The Drikung Chungtsang incarnation line [refers to] the successive reincarnations of Kunkhyen Chökyi Drakpa who became the lineage holders of the Drikung Kagyü lineage, along with the Chetsang Rinpoches. The Chungtsang Rinpoches are considered manifestations of Manjushri. (Source Accessed on October 25, 2019)

Library Items

Book
Gongchig: The Single Intent, the Sacred Dharma
The Gongchig of the Tibetan master Jigten Sumgon conveys clearly the essence of the Buddha's teachings. It delineates the causal law of the universe, Nagarjuna's philosophy of interdependence, and opens one's mind to principles of ethics that help to guard oneself against confusion and deceit. Thus the Gongchig is a guide for every Dharma practitioner - for both study and application in daily life. This edition comprises translations of the Gongchig root text by Jigten Sumgon and of the commentary by Rigdzin Chokyi Dragpa, as well as the original Tibetan texts. It makes the work accessible even for readers who are not well versed in Buddhist philosophy. (Source Accessed Sept 18, 2020)
Viehbeck, Markus, trans. Gongchig: The Single Intent, the Sacred Dharma. By Jigten Sumgon ('jig rten gsum mgon). With commentary entitled The Lamp Dispelling the Darkness by Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa (rig 'dzin chos kyi grags pa). Munich: Otter Verlag, 2009.
Book
The Buddha's Single Intention
This book presents an influential and extraordinary teaching of the Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism known as the Single Intention by the master Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön (1143–1217), along with its chief commentaries, principally the Light of the Sun by Rikzin Chökyi Drakpa (1595–1659).


Early in the history of the Kagyü school, the teachings of Jikten Sumgön were condensed into 150 core formulations called vajra statements. These pithy, revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention (Dgongs gcig), which presents the thought of the Buddha and the nature of the ineffable (brjod du med pa) in concise and direct expression. The Single Intention weaves the thread of ineffable mahāmudrā through the entire fabric of Buddhism. It presents mahāmudrā as pervading disciplined conduct, meditative concentration, and discriminative knowledge; ground, path, and result; view, practice, and conduct; and the “three vows” of prātimokṣa, of the bodhisattvas, and of mantra. Jikten Sumgön teaches how the fundamental values and insights revealed by the Buddha are woven into reality and therefore accessible to all.

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch manages to convey the unity of the Buddha’s message both in its particulars and in its scope. His deep and authoritative skill makes this the definitive presentation of one of the most unique and compelling works of classical Tibetan literature. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, trans. The Buddha's Single Intention: Drigung Kyobpa Jikten Sumgön's Vajra Statements of the Early Kagyü Tradition. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2020.
Text
The First Drikung Chungtsang, Rigdzin Chökyi Drakpa: Light of the Sun: Detailed Exposition of the Excellent Dharma, the Single Intention, a Well-Expressed Clarification of the Meaning of the Scriptures
Rikdzin Chökyi Drakpa's extensive commentary on the Sacred Teaching on the Single Intention (Dam chos dgongs pa gcig pa), one of the core texts of the Drikung Kagyu tradition that is reported to be the oral teachings of Jikten Gönpo that were written down and edited together by his student Sherab Jungne.

On the topic of this person

Video
Katrin Querl at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium
Katrin Querl presents an overview of Jikten Gonpo's position on Buddha-nature as outlined in the textual corpus known as the Single Intention (Dgongs gcig) and in two of this work's earliest commentaries.
Querl, Katrin. "Preliminary Notes on the Notion of Buddha Nature in the Single Intention." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 43:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp3GJz3-5DY.

Other names

  • འབྲི་གུང་རིག་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • འབྲི་གུང་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • རིག་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རིག་འཛིན་ཆོས་གྲགས་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་སློང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དུས་མཐའི་སྔགས་འཆང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དཀོན་མཆོག་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྡེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • ཆེ་མཆོག་འདུས་པ་རྩལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • པདྨ་བ་ཛྲ་རྩལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དབུར་སྨྱོན་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • རྟག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • འབྲི་གུང་པ་གཤིན་རྗེའི་གཤེད་ཀྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་རིག་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • 'bri gung rig 'dzin chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • 'bri gung pa chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • rig 'dzin chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • kun mkhyen rig 'dzin chos grags · other names (Wylie)
  • rdo rje 'dzin pa chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • shAkya'i dge slong chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • dus mtha'i sngags 'chang chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)
  • dkon mchog phun tshogs · other names (Wylie)
  • chos kyi grags pa phrin las rnam par rgyal ba'i sde · other names (Wylie)
  • thugs kyi rdo rje · other names (Wylie)
  • che mchog 'dus pa rtsal · other names (Wylie)
  • pad+ma ba dz+ra rtsal · other names (Wylie)
  • dbur smyon · other names (Wylie)
  • rtag pa'i rdo rje · other names (Wylie)
  • 'bri gung pa gshin rje'i gshed kyi rnal 'byor pa rig 'dzin chos kyi grags pa · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

  • Drikung Kagyu · religious affiliation
  • Rin chen phun tshogs chos kyi rgyal po · emanation of
  • Drikung Chetsang, 1st · teacher
  • 'ja' tshon snying po · teacher
  • Peling Sungtrul, 3rd · teacher
  • Drikung Chetsang, 2nd · student

Tertön Gyatsa Information from the Rinchen Terdzö

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Tibetan
Wylie

The full Tertön Gyatsa text can be found at the following page: Volume 1 (ཀ), 341-765, 1a1-213a4.

Name in Gyatsa: འབྲི་གུང་རིག་འཛིན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ ('bri gung rig 'dzin chos kyi grags pa)

Page #s for bio of this person: 713 to 714

Folio #s for bio of this person: 187a4 to 187b1

རྗེ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་འཕྲུལ་འབྲི་གུང་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ཞེས་གནས་ལྔ་རིག་པའི་པཎྜི་ཏ་སུམ་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པ་ཆེན་པོ་དེ་ཉིད་ལ་སྤྱིར་ཟབ་གཏེར་གྱི་བཀའ་བབས་ཀྱང་དངོས་སུ་འདོན་པར་མ་མཛད་ཅིང་དཔལ་འཁོར་ལོ་སྡོམ་པ་དང་འཇམ་དཔལ་གཤིན་རྗེ་ཚེ་བདག་ནག་པོ་དང་། ནཱ་ག་རཀྴ་སོགས་བླ་མ་དང་ལྷག་པའི་ལྷ་མང་པོས་དངོས་སུ་རྗེས་སུ་བཟུང་བ་ལ་བརྟེན་གཤིན་རྗེ་ཡང་ཟློག་སྐོར་ཟབ་ཅིང་རྒྱ་ཆེ་བ་དགོངས་གཏེར་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་ཚུལ་དུ་བསྩལ་པའི་རྒྱུན་དར་རྒྱས་སུ་བྱུང་བ་དང་། གནམ་མཚོའི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དོ་བོ་ཆེར་བཞུགས་སྐབས་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན་གྱི་ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་ཟབ་ཁྱད་ཅན་ལུང་བྱང་དང་བཅས་དག་སྣང་དུ་བྱུང་བ་དར་རྒྱས་ཆེ་ཞིང་ཁོ་བོས་ཀྱང་རྫོགས་པར་ནོས་པ་ཡིན་ནོ།

rje rin chen phun tshogs kyi rnam 'phrul 'bri gung pa chos kyi grags pa zhes gnas lnga rig pa'i paN+Di ta sum ldan rdo rje 'dzin pa chen po de nyid la spyir zab gter gyi bka' babs kyang dngos su 'don par ma mdzad cing dpal 'khor lo sdom pa dang 'jam dpal gshin rje tshe bdag nag po dang /_nA ga rak+sha sogs bla ma dang lhag pa'i lha mang pos dngos su rjes su bzung ba la brten gshin rje yang zlog skor zab cing rgya che ba dgongs gter bstan bcos kyi tshul du bstsal pa'i rgyun dar rgyas su byung ba dang /_gnam mtsho'i bkra shis do bo cher bzhugs skabs sgra mi snyan gyi tshe sgrub zab khyad can lung byang dang bcas dag snang du byung ba dar rgyas che zhing kho bos kyang rdzogs par nos pa yin no


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